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2016-06-23

Posted by Fred 2016-06-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 A beetle-browed gal of San Pablo
Was seized by an imp or diablo
That called itself "Kahlo"
And loved alcohol...
Oh, and posed for a Lutheran retablo.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-06-23 02:18|| 2016-06-23 02:18|| Front Page Top

#2 The Search of British Women Agents of Vera Atkins, F Section, MIA During WWII (wikipedia.com)

After the liberation of France and the allied victory in Europe, Atkins went to both France, and later, for just four days, Germany, where she was determined to uncover the fates of the fifty-one still unaccounted for F Section agents, of the 118 who had disappeared in enemy territory (117 of whom she was to confirm had died in German captivity). Originally she received little support and some opposition in Whitehall, but as the horrors of Nazi atrocities were revealed, and the popular demand for war crimes trials grew, it was decided to give official support for her quest to find out what had happened to the British agents, and to bring those who has perpetrated crimes against them to justice.
At the end of 1945 SOE was wound-up, but in January 1946 Atkins, now funded on the establishment of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), arrived in Germany as a newly promoted Squadron Officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force to begin her search for the missing agents, including 14 women. She was attached to the war crimes unit of the Judge Advocate-General's department of the British Army HQ at Bad Oeynhausen, which was under the command of Group Captain Tony Somerhaugh.[23]
Until her return to England in October 1946, Atkins searched for the missing SOE agents and other intelligence service personnel who had gone missing behind enemy lines, carried out interrogations of Nazi war crimes suspects, including Rudolf Hoess, ex-commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau,[24] and testified as a prosecution witness in subsequent trials. In November 1946 Atkins' commission was extended so that she could return to Germany to assist the prosecution in the Ravensbrück trial which lasted into January 1947. She used this opportunity to complete her search for Noor Inayat Khan, who she now knew had not died at Natzweiler-Struthof, as she had originally concluded in April 1946, but at Dachau.
As well as tracing 117 of the 118 missing F Section agents, Atkins established the circumstances of the deaths of all 14 of the women, twelve of whom had been murdered in concentration camps: Andrée Borrel, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanezky (whom Atkins did not identify until 1947, but knew as the fourth woman to be killed) and Diana Rowden executed at Natzweiler-Struthof by lethal injection on 6 July 1944; Yolande Beekman, Madeleine Damerment, Noor Inayat Khan and Eliane Plewman executed at Dachau on 13 September 1944; Denise Bloch, Lilian Rolfe and Violette Szabo executed by shooting at Ravensbrück on 5 February 1945, and Cecily Lefort murdered in the gas chamber at the Uckermark Youth Camp adjacent to Ravensbrück sometime in February 1945. Yvonne Rudellat died of typhus on 23 April 1945, eight days after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and Muriel Byck had died of meningitis in hospital in Romorantin, France, on 25 May 1944. She had also persuaded the War Office that the twelve women, technically regarded as civilians, who had been executed, were not treated as having died in prison, as had been originally intended, but were recorded as killed in action.
Atkins' efforts in looking for her missing "girls" meant not only did each now have a place of death, but by detailing their bravery before and after capture, she also helped to ensure that each (except Sonya Olschanezky, unknown to Atkins until 1947) received official recognition by the British Government, including the award of a posthumous George Cross to both Violette Szabo in 1946 and, especially due to Atkins's efforts, Noor Inayat Khan in 1949[25] (Odette Sansom, who survived Ravensbrück, also received the GC in 1946). However, when she did confirm that Sonya Olschanezky had been murdered at Natzweiler-Struthof, she failed to pass the information to Sonya's family.
Despite her stern manner on first meeting, Atkins became well-liked by her colleagues in Germany, and enjoyed relaxing, drinking and smoking in the officers' mess.

(She was one hell of a stern interrogator of NAZI officers, breaking many of them in only a few hours.)

Posted by Percy McCoy7690 2016-06-23 02:28|| 2016-06-23 02:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The above picture reminded me of the stories of one tough, controversial Vera Adkins of WWII British Agent legend.

Posted by Percy McCoy7690 2016-06-23 02:30|| 2016-06-23 02:30|| Front Page Top

#4 You see a girl with an attitude like that and you run, do NOT walk, away from her.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-06-23 12:38|| 2016-06-23 12:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Sixty days for disorderly hairdo. Plus an additional 15 days for the eyebrows.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-06-23 12:39|| 2016-06-23 12:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Found on the Internet:

1967: Bonnie Jean Werner was arrested and charged with animal cruelty after an eyebrow mishap inspired her to staple live tadpoles to her forehead. Her unwitting accomplice, Sharon A. Lipke was charged with possession of frog spawn with the intent to sell it for cosmetic purposes.

Posted by Spinesing Gray3122 2016-06-23 13:30|| 2016-06-23 13:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Cute, Spinesing Gray3122.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-06-23 18:52|| 2016-06-23 18:52|| Front Page Top

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